Pinky Green

That was so rude. You never put anything derogatory on a customer's ticket. http://www.cafemom.c..._customers_fat.

I like the idea of sneaking in a 100 calorie pack of already popped popcorn. Then you still get to have the popcorn, but don't get all the extra salt and calories that you get with the dreaded (calorie-wise) movie popcorn.

I got word from my test results and my A1C is still a little high at 6.0 but it was 6.3 before surgery. And I'm on the low side of average for vitamin D so he's adding having me take 2000mg of Vitamin D also. I think vitamin D helps in weight loss so maybe it will jump start my weight loss a little.

I was typing a post and for some reason on my laptop the browser flipped back to this thread while I was typing and the comment for that post went on this thread instead of a different thread. Just a mistake.

I never posted pictures originally so I'm going to post these new ones and then later when I lose more weight I will post these again to compare but these are me after I have lost 47 lbs.

My doctor said no seeds, nuts or popcorn for 6 months. I'm just starting my 5th month so I'll be looking forward to some nuts and seeds in about 2 months.

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That was actually what I did. And I did it with fish. I had the low calorie Blackened Tilapia at Luby's Cafeteria. I was about 3-and-a-half weeks out. I could only eat about 1/3 of what they gave me and I chewed it until it was mush.

I am now in a stall. I got down to 195.2 and have been going back and forth between 197.8 and 195.2 for about a week and a half now. I know that that is natural but it's still discouraging. I was sleeved on 9/26 (15 weeks, 3 days ago) and I have lost 45 lbs now if you count 195.2 as my weight. I need to lose 65 more pounds to make my goal so I'm almost half way there.

Well, stall finally broke and I got on the scale this morning and had lost almost 2lbs and am down to 193.6

Yeah but because they have a little more Protein it's easier to stop at just 10.

They are in Kroger's in Houston.

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Dannon makes Lite and Fit Greek yogurt with splenda.

Also, my doctor said no seeds, popcorn or nuts for 6 months. Except nut butters, non-crunchy of course.

I used a can of green enchilada sauce and added a little dried onions and also some slightly hotter green sauce because just the green enchilada sauce was a little bland. I started cooking it at around noon and it as ready at 7pm when we ate. Oh, and I put a little too much liquid so I used a little cornstarch and a little (a tablespoon or so) of masa harina.

I have some really nice serving spoons from when I did weight watchers. They are one cup, a half cup and a quarter cup. I use them when I serve my food, especially for soups, stews and rice or pasta. For more solid food, I usually use the palm of my hand to judge but I might go to using a measuring cup or a foods scale.

Spongy water?

Well, there are some encouraging things. The size 8 underwear that I bought to replaced the size 9 and 10 underwear are starting to get looser and soon I will trade my size 8 underwear for the size 7 I have waiting. I also walked all around the park at Gulfton and Chimney Rock. http://www.mapmywalk...rkout/221103734 My boyfriend and I go and he sits in the car and watches soccar (futbol) while I walk around the park. He said it took about 25 minutes. Next time I'll time it. I noticed that my knees no longer hurt. Now my muscles hurt, but I think that's an improvement. Also, I am learning how to cook Central American Lite. Today I took a pork tenderloin and cooked it in the slow cooker in salsa verde. Had 2 corn tortillas. But if I had had that before I would have had 6 corn tortillas. It's funny, I feel like I'm eating a lot but it's like 2 1/2 oz of meat mixed with tomatillo salsa.I ate a half cup of that. Earlier today I made some arroz con leche with low fat milk and splenda and cinnamon. I also used brown rice. It was delicious and I had a quarter cup. I also find that I can go down the stairs without pain and also pretty fast now. I can even go up the stairs carrying groceries now without having to put them on as high a step as I can reach and then moving them as I go up. And my boyfriend tells me that I eat like "un gato".

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My doctor also allowed broth and sugar-free frozen popsicles.

It gets better. I think the fourth day was worst for me. I felt tired and hungry and all of a sudden on the fifth day I woke up and had all kind of energy. After that you pretty much won't experience hunger like before. I have been sleeved for 4 months and I find myself forgetting to eat. And even when I eat something that is a little fattening, I don't have the urge to eat a lot of it. I used to eat 3 pieces of fried chicken, now I can only eat a drumstick. I used to eat half of a 16" pizza and now I take a couple of bites of the crust and eat the toppings off the rest of the slice. Sometimes I have my boyfriend order and eat a little bit off his plate. I have lost 45 lbs.

Five pounds a week is nothing to sneeze at. I was sleeved September 26th and I have lost 44 lbs. That's 11 lbs a month. Now the first 2 weeks I was down about 10 lbs also. But it adds up. Even if you only lose 2 lbs a week from now on, in a year you will be down 104 lbs in a year, right!